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Historic house in Alabama, United States

United States historic place


Dry Forks Plantation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Front portico of Dry Fork in 1939
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Nearest city	Coy, Alabama
Coordinates	31°54′7″N 87°21′39″W / 31.90194°N 87.36083°W / 31.90194; -87.36083
Built	1834
Architect	Hezekiah; Tait, James, et al.
Architectural style	Early Republic
NRHP reference No.	99000250
Added to NRHP	February 26, 1999

Dry Fork Plantation, also known as James Asbury Tait House, is a historic plantation house in Coy, Alabama. The two-story wood-frame house was built between 1832 and 1834 in a vernacular interpretation of Federal style architecture. It was built for James Asbury Tait by two enslaved African Americans, Hezekiah and Elijah. The floor plan is centered on a hall that separates four rooms, two on each side, on both floors. Tait recorded in his daybook that the house required 25,000 board feet (59 m) of lumber, the roof was covered with 6,000 wooden shingles, and the chimneys and foundation required 12,000 bricks, made from clay on the plantation. Dry Fork is one of the oldest houses still standing in Wilcox County and remains in the Tait family. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 26, 1999, with the name of Dry Forks Plantation.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
"Dry Fork". Wilcox Area Chamber of Commerce. Archived from the original on September 19, 2008. Retrieved October 14, 2008.

External links

Media related to Dry Fork Plantation at Wikimedia Commons

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. AL-137, "Dry Forks Plantation, County Road 12, Camden, Wilcox County, AL", 19 photos

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Wilcox County, Alabama
Historic districts	William King Beck House Furman Historic District Oak Hill Historic District Pine Apple Historic District Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute Wilcox County Courthouse Historic District
Other properties	Ackerville Baptist Church of Christ Tristram Bethea House Dry Fork Plantation Hawthorne House Liberty Hall Liddell Archeological Site Prairie Mission Tait-Ervin House Wilcox Female Institute
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Wilcox County, Alabama and List of National Historic Landmarks in Alabama

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